Experience (That Was a Lifetime in the Making)

Experience is a critical component of any company’s success–not just quantity, but also the quality and source of a firm’s experience. Our team takes a “hands-on” approach to each project, ensuring that each project receives the individualized attention it deserves. Nathan and our staff staff have well over a century’s worth of combined experience in a wide range of golf facilities and land planning projects from small renovation projects to large upscale residential developments centered around championship caliber golf courses as well as government-funded land planning projects. In addition to being a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) and former member of the American Planning Association, Nathan is also a former associate member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a published author. It easy to see why he is sought out for his creativity, communication skills and ability to provide unique solutions to client problems through a combination of critical thinking and an “outside the box” approach to each project.

Those who have known Nathan since his younger days credit this ability to a childhood full of creative opportunity. Although no one in his family played golf, he picked up the game at age 10, taught himself how to play by watching and emulating Jack Nicklaus from television and reading Nicklaus’s “Golf My Way” books. By age 11, he designed his first “golf course” — utilizing three acres of his parents’ land at their Indiana home to lay out a working three-hole course (complete with contour mowed fairways and sand bunkers). He even went so far as to draw up construction drawings to be utilized by his friends whom he recruited to help build the course. He soon discovered that his love for playing the game was eclipsed only by his zeal for learning more about the history of the game and its roots in early courses and their design styles. By his freshman year in high school, he has honed his game well enough to be selected as a member of the varsity golf team. By his senior year, he had decided his goal was to become a golf course architect after college and he soon found himself enrolled in Mississippi State University’s PGA Golf Management (PGM) program — his key to opening doors in a growing golf industry.

Nathan would go on to graduate from Mississippi State Summa Cum Laude with a 3.89 cumulative GPA and a Bachelors Degree in Marketing as well as a degree from the PGM program. Upon graduation, Nathan took the position as Senior Design Associate at an upstart golf course design firm in Jackson, Mississippi.

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